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Legislative leaders posture on possible special session on guns, school safety

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After weeks of meetings to negotiate the framework of a special session on gun violence, school safety and mental health, is a gathering on the near horizon?

On Tuesday, Gov. Tim Walz and DFL leaders released a proposed framework for a special session that’d begin next Monday.

Walz and legislative leaders began meeting to discuss a special session framework following the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that killed two children and injured 21 people.

House DFL Caucus Leader Zack Stephenson (DFL-Coon Rapids) said negotiations have reached a “clear impasse.” House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Cold Spring) doesn’t think discussions have broken down and the topics will be part of the Legislature’s discussions whether in a special session or during the 2026 session that begins Feb. 17.


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